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Not Android or iOS? Apps is the killer problem for MS

Yeah sucks they "only" have 100,000 aps so far

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Developers will port apps to anything with a reasonable sized market.
MS needs to get some product out there, really cheap if need, to grab a 5-10+% and growing market, THEN you'll see more than enough apps.
MS can be cheaper than apple, but probably not as cheap as the the android counterparts, so unless they find some INCREDIBLE, MUST HAVE, LINK TO YOUR DESKTOP app they'll continue to struggle is the third banana at a two person breakfast.

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That and the fact that every single windows phone in existence today will be unable to get Win Phone 8. Bring it to Sanford and Sons. That is typical MSFT. They have failed since day one, and never updated my Dell Axim back in the day. So their motto is ship and forget. That's simply because their focus has never been hardware, it's about the O/S and apps, totally contrary to the phone sector which is about hardware and the apps...I would question the O/S once HTML5 takes hold.

If you recall this has been a big problem for androids (Samsung where is my ICS?) and now Apple (Apple specifically holding back features on older phones), except Apple is doing it way more gracefully. The droids always have custom ROM's to get back functionality (I just rooted my Nexus 7).

With windows, forget it. Proprietary to the max, and the strategy changes by the second. They can't even figure out what to do with the Zune name

The ONLY ace in the hole MSFT is Office, period. And for that I fire up my 2lb ultrabook, so they can go back home.

The phones are heavily tied to the success of the surface tablet platform...If that gravitates toward the enterprise, it will kill the phones and make them another RIMM. MSFT better get their ecosystem together, or just keep selling Office.

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I hold grudges (surprise). After buying the HTC HD7 that Microsoft promised to put "its full might to get applications written for", doing almost nothing THEN refusing to allow it to be upgraded to the new version of the SW so M$ can promote the new crap phones, no thank you.

I will use my iPhone4 until I buy the iPhone5. And I hate Apple.

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Angry birds: check, facebook: check, netflix: check, gmail: check, Bing maps and Gmaps: check, Comcast remote: nope... have to ask comcast, Pandora: Check (MetroRadio is better than the stock pandora app), Instagram: nope, but possibly 3rd party app, kindle: check, Pinterest: Not officially, but there is a high rated 3rd party app, Skype: Will be integrated in WP8 and has an app for WP7, Redbox: check.

The WP ecosystem has grown immensely this year. They might not get the latest craze like words with friends when it first comes out, but there are plenty of other devs that will end up making something similar.

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